If you want to grow vegetables all year round, you can not do without the construction of a greenhouse. Depending on the operational properties and building characteristics, all greenhouses are divided into several types. You can buy a ready greenhouse, and the masters can install it on your site. But for those owners who are used to doing everything with their own hands, it is possible, having bought all the necessary details, to assemble the greenhouse on their own. Let's look at how you can properly build your own hands different types of greenhouses.
Building greenhouses with their own hands
Especially popular are greenhouses, the frame of which is assembled from a steel, wooden or PVC profile. The steel frame is the most wear-resistant and durable: it will perfectly cope with both strong winds and snow. As a covering material, cellular polycarbonate is used.
Construction of the greenhouse from the profile with their own hands begins with the preparation of the site. Then the poles and polycarbonate are cut to size. After that, fastening the parts with screws, mount the frame.
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After the frame is completely ready, proceed to mounting the coating - film or polycarbonate. In one of the walls you can install a window leaf, and in the opposite - a door. Also, you can build with your own hands a heated greenhouse with heated soil or general heating inside it.
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If you want to grow vegetables all year round, the best option for carrying out this will be a greenhouse thermos, which you can make with your own hands, although the matter is quite complicated. A feature of this type of greenhouses is a deep foundation pit, which, in fact, provides the effect of a thermos. The depth of the hollow should be about two meters, then the greenhouse will not freeze. When the pit is ready, it is necessary to fill the foundation or lay concrete blocks along the walls of the pit. On top of the foundation is installed a metal frame to which the thermoblocks will be attached. For the roof of a greenhouse-thermos all the same polycarbonate is used. Inside the structure is covered with a thermal insulating film. It remains to conduct electricity in the greenhouse, install heating appliances, ventilation, etc.
To make a greenhouse pyramid made of wood and film by your own hands is not at all difficult. It differs from other constructions with excellent resistance and resistance to winds. Such a greenhouse is used most often for growing seedlings. For this, it is necessary to fill the foundation with the steel corners along the edges. The boards are attached to them, and the base of our pyramid is obtained. To the corners of this base with the help of steel plates and screws we attach the faces that will converge at the top of the pyramid. From the southern part, you should install the door for ventilation. Due to the small amount of space in the upper part of such greenhouses, warm air descends to the plants. The hothouse-pyramid is covered with an air-bubble film, which keeps the temperature well, and drops of water do not fall from it onto the plants, but smoothly drain down. However, over time, the film becomes unusable, so it is better to replace it with a flexible and durable honeycomb polycarbonate.
Vegetarian is a sample of a new generation greenhouse in which solar energy is used for heating. You can build such a greenhouse with your own hands. Its peculiarity is that it should be built on the south-eastern or southern slope at an angle of about 15-20 degrees. The rays of the sun, even in the winter, after hitting a greenhouse, heat not only the plants, but everything that is inside.
The northern side of the building should be made warm, capital. Throughout the area of the greenhouse at a depth of approximately 35 cm thin-walled pipes are laid, the diameter of which should be at least 110 mm. At the top, the pipes are connected to a special collector, from which a tube with a fan to the roof is removed. The fan will facilitate the movement of air. The whole system is covered from above with a fertile layer of soil. The roof in vegetarians must be necessarily flat and transparent and go parallel to the slope. The walls and the roof are made of polycarbonate.
However, to obtain a good harvest, for example, tomatoes, it is not enough just to build a greenhouse. It is also important to choose the right varieties and know how to care for plants in the greenhouse .